The air attack against a wildfire that has burned through more than 10,000 acres in Ventura County will resume at sunrise, state and county fire officials said Friday.

The Springs fire, which began before 7 a.m. Thursday south of the 101 Freeway in Camarillo, has reached Pacific Coast Highway and threatens 2,000 homes, 100 businesses and more than a dozen other buildings.

Hundreds of residents in Sycamore Canyon, La Jolla Canyon and Broome Ranch have been forced to evacuate.

Since the fire began the weather has been working against emergency responders. The dry air and hot wind pushed the fire deeper into the Ventura County mountains where brush hadn’t burned for decades. The wind pushed the fire toward the the ocean, where it's expected to shift to an inland breeze. It was unclear Friday morning if the wind had pushed the fire deeper into the brush or slowed the fire’s progress.

About 925 firefighters from across the state are battling the blaze, with “many, many more” on the way to relieve them, said Ventura County fire spokesman Bill Nash.

Ed and Kate Cruz were among the many gawkers drawn by the backfire in the mountains. The family lives nearby and hikes there multiple times a week. So, for them, watching the controlled burn was like watching a favorite treehouse burn.

“Picnic oak," Kate said, in reference to "an oak tree we like that goes perfectly over a picnic table. It’s just beautiful. Beautiful birds, owls, wolves.

"It’s a sad day.”

Her husband was more blunt.

“This place is going to be a lunar landscape tomorrow morning,” Ed Cruz said. "Making the backfire this big -- they will burn the entire canyon."

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